Christophe wrote:
<blockquote>
Greg Lowney says he can't think of real-world examples where reordering
the
contents would not affect their meaning. However, this depends on the
level
you are considering: a set of delivery units, single delivery units or
even
lower levels. Ordering is important for the main content of a delivery
unit, but some content does not have a logical order relation with
regard
to the main flow, e.g. sidebars are concurrent to the main flow, and
reordering them does not affect the meaning.
At the sentence level, the situation is obviously very different.
Consider
for example the differences between:
- Only I hit him on the eye.
- I only hit him on the eye.
- I hit him only on the eye.
- I hit him on the eye only.
</blockquote>
Thanks for this excellent clarification, Christophe.
John
"Good design is accessible design."
Dr. John M. Slatin, Director
Accessibility Institute
University of Texas at Austin
FAC 248C
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Austin, TX 78712
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email jslatin@mail.utexas.edu
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Subject: Does order affect meaning (was: NEW: Issue #1609)
At 06:52 24/08/2005, bugzilla@webby.trace.wisc.edu wrote:
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> 1.3 L3 SC1 recommend removing the When clause
> -> http://trace.wisc.edu/bugzilla_wcag/show_bug.cgi?id=1609
Greg Lowney says he can't think of real-world examples where reordering
the
contents would not affect their meaning. However, this depends on the
level
you are considering: a set of delivery units, single delivery units or
even
lower levels. Ordering is important for the main content of a delivery
unit, but some content does not have a logical order relation with
regard
to the main flow, e.g. sidebars are concurrent to the main flow, and
reordering them does not affect the meaning.
At the sentence level, the situation is obviously very different.
Consider
for example the differences between:
- Only I hit him on the eye.
- I only hit him on the eye.
- I hit him only on the eye.
- I hit him on the eye only.
Regards,
Christophe Strobbe
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K.U.Leuven - Departement of Electrical Engineering - Research Group on
Document Architectures
Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 - 3001 Leuven-Heverlee - BELGIUM
tel: +32 16 32 85 51
http://www.docarch.be/